No.2750
Let's get philosophical for a moment, /film/. Over the past several years, I've been getting deeper and deeper into film, and have watched countless movies from increasingly obscure countries and directors, which veer further and further away from accessibility and closer to art. I've found that the effect of viewing so many films which, assuming you buy at least a little bit into the auteur theory, are personal expressions of the feelings of the directors and writers who created them, is my increasing realization of the subjectivity of human experience.
Essentially, being exposed to all of these differing subjective visions of these artists has stripped away my preconceptions of ideology and caused me to question the forces which govern my own life and existence. I haven't really done any hallucinogens, but I've been around people who have, and I feel like exposure to art has the same dissociating effects that drugs can, in that art makes you realize your own insignificance, and also connection to the greater whole of humanity. I'm not trying to say that I'm some sort of enlightened being just because I have watched a bunch of obscure movies, but I do feel like watching so many personal and artistic films has caused a change in myself and my perception of the world. Sorry for the rant, but if this makes any sense, does anyone else feel the same? I can also clarify what I mean in more detail if I have to, I think what I'm saying makes sense but it's kind of hard to put into words succinctly.
No.2751
I don't have much to add but I agree. Same happened to me in a way.
I take it your choosing of Tarkovsky as the OP pic means you've read his quotes on cinema, art and spirituality. If not, please do so. It might be exactly what you need to read right now.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky No.2752
Just stepping in to say all film is art, be it Stalker or Persona, or transformers and point break
Worthwhile art is a different, more subjective concept entirely
Carry on
No.2753
>>2751Yeah, Tarkovsky's films were some of the first I saw of a spiritual/philosophical nature that had a big effect on me, and the excerpts I've read of Sculpting in Time also informed a lot of my thinking on art and stuff for a while.
>>2752Yeah I wouldn't disagree, but for the most part, commercial films like Transformers have had a different effect on me than "art house" films by Bergman or Tarr or something. They both fall under the category of art, but their aims and effects are different, and it's the art house films which have changed the way I think about things.